If I were
not limited by the requirements of national / regional curriculum, I would
teach my students other aspects that I consider essential in my classroom (in a
CLIL context). For example, I would like my students to have more time to play
freely and less time to do worksheets while sitting on a chair, but the reality
is different. Personally, I am a kindergarten teacher and in this level we work
under a globalizing approach. For this, We don't work with subjects, we work on
content areas.
From my point of view, it is essential to
respect the spontaneity of children because in many cases there are
restrictions of many hours doing activities led by the teacher. Also, I'd do
less equal work and choose more for difference and naturalness. I apply an
active and motivating methodology, because children learn so much easier and
fun all the content. I use the game as an essential resource in my classes. But
sometimes in many cases, this would be difficult, just because you need to
follow a guideline for achieving contents and parents will be informed
quarterly.
Now, I am
going to talk about how the teacher would assess their learning. First, I would
say that teachers should identify the conditions, prepare different types of
tasks and use of different tools in order to properly evaluate and reflect all
objectives in one unit. To do this, an evaluation must have the following
characteristics: it is diagnostic, formative and summative. It should be done
before, during and after each activity, unit or lesson.
In my
opinion, one of the most important things to evaluate success would be to
familiarize students with the measures and criteria and try to do so through
different types of (oral or written) assignments and responsibility for their
own assessment. As you know, language is an essential aspect of a learning
process. Therefore, all content related to it should be appropriately assessed
(for a real purpose in a real context). It is essential to know that we must
evaluate both students and ourselves as teachers. If we
share our assessment criteria with students help them more easily achieve the
goals.
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